Virginia Longest photographs

Identifier
irn548930
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1991.235
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Longest

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Virginia Longest donated the Virginia Longest photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.

Scope and Content

Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory.

System of Arrangement

The Virgnia Longest photograph collection is arranged in a single series.

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.